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Yes, but what do they know? The TV weatherman who started the Weather Channel says otherwise, as does the stable genius DJT.

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It’s all a smokescreen to protect the REAL Q channels. They’ve deliberately sacrificed their own in order to beat the deep state. It’s all part of the plan... that will be described later... IF you can understand the drops. And have the secret decoder ring. You’d understand that if you were a patriot, Bill.

Any help is appreciated. I cannot do this alone. I want to make sure what the final goal of all my actions are. I want to get the Museum done. The fact that so many pioneers and members are now gone before they ever saw it, is sad. The fact that the Honorary Chairman GHWB was the ONLY skydiving President we ever had and he wasn't used to secure a location at the Smithsonian or at his Presidential Library is mind blowing to me. I have contacted both of these (and a few more) and got to both directors. Sadly I was told they weren't interested. Pretty sure an ex President wude have gotten a different answer. Since it was never tried, we won't ever know. To me, that indicates the ISMHOF is not really interested in getting this done. 48 yrs and still waiting. Sad.

Again, lets be accurate. I said I haven't met anyone that has said they knew about the vote ahead of time. That shouldn't be taken as they don't exist. Stating that 1 member did (McCormick) also should not be stated as many, many that did know either. "I also assume that he is not the only 1 behind that effort" is just that. An assumption. To also say that some members are for funding the museum and some are not, is also inaccurate. What they have been led to beleive, is by contributing to the Museum, the project will get finished. So far, that has not happened. I also doubt that anyone has been told that a portion of their contribution (up to 37% so far) will not be used to actually construct this but, is used to gather more funding. We also don't have an actual site picked out, an actual building plan, any kind of business plan to keep this operating or any engineering company to help get this built. We only have a group of 14 Trustees that have little to no experience in these projects, have other full time jobs and have been put in charge of this project and in 48 yrs have produced exactly nothing. Those are all historical, verifiable facts.

I am not. MBOHU stated that the members Knew about this coming up for a vote. I have not found any evidence to support this. Lets try and stay with factual, historically accurate events. If you don't have a way to prove a statement, please don't make it till you can. I have encouraged anyone that reads my statements to check them on your own for accuracy

It would all be in the phrasing. I bet, “Are you in favor of using a small percentage of member’s dues to fund the International Skydiving Museum and Hall of Fam?” would get a positive reaction. “Are you for or against USPA giving the the International Skydiving Museum and Hall of Fame $25,000 per year for 5 years from your membership dues, without any guarantees it will ever be built?” would not get a positive reaction. I emailed Jim McCormick on Monday asking about the museum’s plans and more details about the wind tunnels. No response. Derek V

The LAST thing any Trump supporter wants is full cooperation in any investigation.

I had to post this one too. It's great!!

As far as members petitioning the USPA to donate members dues is news to me. Please share whatever evidence you have to support that statement. Or the many, many other ways you speak of.

That makes no sense. The ISMHOF is a 501c3 and anybody that wanted to donate cude do so on their own. Many have. Why have the USPA step in and use members dues for that? A completely unnecessary step....

That would be fun to see! "YES! Commiefornia can GO! See if I care! Excellent! Wait . . . they're still going to send us that quarter trillion dollars in taxes every year, right? Because we sorta need that. And they grow like 90% of the produce in the country. They are still going to send us THAT, right? I mean, what are we going to eat? I know - MEAT! Wait, where do they get all that cattle feed from? No matter, we will still have plenty of foreign trade to compensate. All that produce will come in through . . . hang on. Well, if it comes through California, we can still get it. Wait a minute. They are instituting a TARIFF on us? UNFAIR! Only we can do that! Right?" Then he could buy Greenland again.